Narrow door wall bed



July7, 1931. N. SINCLAIR 1,813,091

mmnow boon WALL BED Filed June 2'7, 1929 nmllll INVENTOR. New. S/IvcLBMW ATTORNEYS.

Patented July 7, 193 1 m ni. SINCLAIR. or OAKLAND, GALIFOBN1'A-,:A.siGN0R To an, vmwmera whit} @{BED coMPAnY, INC., OF OAKLAND, c Iro-nmmnoon-nonarron. onoALrronnra g;

' marrow Boon e/ LL BED i A ncatioh knee 3 1111527, 1929. sea No. stunThis 'invention relates to wall beds "and I particularly to what isknown-as: anarrowdoorwall bed inlwhichia. wallgbed swings from one sideof awall to the other 'slde through a doorway. much narrower than thebed. The objectsof theinventionare to pro-1,

vide improvements in the mountings ofsuch beds whereby with-simplerugged mechanism a liberal passageway-through the doorwayls or swingstovertical position andmounting,

iton vertical pivots adjacent one jamb of a doorway in a special mannerto produce the results mentioned. The" mounting itself in-,

volves pivoted arms of certain shapepivotally carrying the head frame ofthe bed and a pivoted controlling leverwhich guides the bed in thedesired path of travel when swinging'fromone sidelof the wall to theother.-

Reference is made to my c'opending appllcation fi led simultaneouslyherewith under Serial No. 374,040 covering a specificvariatiou ofthewithin described invention.

- In the drawings accompanying thisappli cation Fig.1 is ahorizontalcross section of a wall having a narrow doorway and with a bed mountedin accordance with my invention swungtoapos ition on one side of a wallwithin a closet.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to that of Fig. 1 but showing the bed swungthrough the narrow doorway to the outside of the'wall or within theroom.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the bed mounting broken in height'so asto bring the upper and lower sets of pivoted arms closer together, andthe view shows the arms in position of Fig. 1 of the drawings andindicates a portion of the head frame of the bed pivotally supported bythe arms.

Since the invention relates to obtaining a satisfactory passageway orspace between the edge of the bed and the door with bed either in thecloset on one side of the wall or in the room on the other side of thewall, the drawing in Figs. 1 and 2 is to scale'and shows a wall with a28 doorway which is standard finbedrooms and a h I in width mounted in'accordance with my in:

'vention, so that the passageway or clearance of the wall, the oppositeside of the 'wa ll-ibe' ing'th'e closet side'of the mu as.'-'indicatedby the closet end wa11s5, 6. i 5 a I "The fed 7 is inthe'fiuresindicatediasin vertical or tip-ended position like any 'ordiwall bed when swinging it"zin'toand out of thec'loset, and thehead'framefof the 111sizebeaef tea bed is shown at 8"pivotally"moun'tedadjacent the 'jamb pivots 9."

; There is one pivot adjacentthe floor work ing in a lower bearing orfloor plate 10 anda", pivot near the top of the head frame'8 workofthe'doorway on :vertical ing in an upper bearing 11 firmly secured to ii the jamb, all in a mannerto bring the pivots at the inner or closetside of the jam'b yet within thewidth of the doorway.

Vertical pivots 9 are carried at the" ends of the long runs oftwo'L-shaped arms'12. which are aligned one above the other an d' rigidlysecured together by'means" of a 'vertical bar or pipe 13 so that theywilli move together as a unit and thereby fOrmQ virtual-1y I The short]uns 1 i one solid armor bracket.

of the L-shaiped arms are vertically pivoted to the head frame 8 of thebed. at'l l' on substantial pivots so as 'to carry f the entire Pivots14 rs verticallyfaligned and are positioned about 3 to one. side of themedial line X ofthe bed with esult that when the bed of the widthstatedf'is swung on the L-shaped arms through the doorway from one sideof the wall to the other, a,

passagewayfor clearance space o't'about 13 i is preserved bet ween "thebed and "sid'egof doorway inbo'th positions {of the bed sothat anyonemay f-reelylg'o i-n and "out ofthe closet way and to hold it parallelwith the wall in both positions I provide a guiding lever or link 15adjacent the floor, said lever beirflig pivoted at one end at 16 to anupwardly 0 set lug on floor plate 10 and at the other end at 17 to 2.lug or bracket 18 projecting from the lower part of the bed frame. Lever15 is so formed or offset as to meet the different levels of pivots 16and 17 and also arched to pass around the end of lower arm 12 when thebed is swung out into the room as shown in Fig. 2.

In operation of my invention, the closet door 4 is opened, and the bedis pulled out of the closet to automatically travel from position ofFig. 1 to that of Fig. 2, the long runs of the L'shaped arms 12 swingingfrom a position substantially parallel with and behind the wall 1 asshown in Fig. 1, to a position at right angles therewith or across thedoorway against the jamb as shown in Fig. 2, the short run of the armsprojecting substantially at right angles to the wall in Fig. 1 andparallel therewith in Fig. 2.

I am aware of the many arrangements of pivots and linkage used in themounting of wall beds, but none of them insofar as I know provide insuch a simple construction the clear passageway with definite sizes ofdoorways and beds as does the arrangement described, and while avariation in the proportions of the bed, doorway, swinging arms, andposition of pivoting will change the result, there is nevertheless afundamental invention involved which will produce the results shown withdoorway and bed of sizes given and therefore I claim:

1. In a wall bed adapted to swing through a doorway from a position.substantially parallel with and at one side of a wall to a position atthe other side of the wall substantially parallel therewith, a bedframe, a pair of vertically aligned arms, means vertically pivoting thearms at one end respectively to the upper and lower portions of the bedframe, means vertically pivoting the opposite ends of the arms to rigidsupports adjacent the jamb of the doorway at one side of the wall, saidarms being substantially L-shaped and arranged to have the long andshort runs respectively extending along opposite sides of the wall whenthe bed is swung from one extreme position to the other, and acontrolling lever pivoted at one end to the bed frame and at the otherend to a fixed point at said one side of the wall'spaced away from. saiddoorway beyond the vertical pivoting of said arms.

2. In a wall bed adapted to swing through a doorway from a positionwithin a closet substantially parallel with the inner side of the wallto a position at the outer side of said wall substantially paralleltherewith, a pair of vertically aligned substantially L-shaped bedsupporting arms vertically pivoted at the ends of their short runs tothe bed frame and vertically pivoted at the ends of their long runs tofixed points adjacent the inner corner of the jamb of the door, and acontrolling lever pivoted at one end to the bed and at the other end toa fixed point adjacent the inner side of said j arnb and formed to passaround the jamb when the bed is out of the closet parallel with theouter side of said Wall.

3. In a wall bed adapted to swing through a doorway from a positionwithin a closet substantially parallel with the inner side of the wallto a position at the outer side of said wall substantially paralleltherewith, a bed supporting bracket substantially L-shaped when viewedin plan, means vertically pivoting the bracket at one end of the L tothe bed, and means vertically pivoting the other end of the L to a fixedaxis adjacent the inner corner of the amb of the door in a mannerwhereby the bracket will extend through the doorway and along the outerside of the wall when the bed is outside of the .closet, and acontrolling lever pivoted at one end to the bed and at the other to afixed point adjacent the inner side of the amb.

4. In a wall bed adapted to swing through a doorway out of a closet froma position substantially parallel with and at one side of a wall to aposition at the other side of said wall substantially paralleltherewith, a bed frame, a pair of vertically aligned arms, meansvertically pivoting the arms at one end respectively to the upper andlower portion of the bed frame, means vertically pivoting the oppositeends of the arms to a fixed axis adjacent the inner corner of the doorarn'b whereby the arms will extend substantially along the wall withinthe closet when the bed is in the closet and directly through thedoorway when the bed is out of the closet, and linkage pivoted to afixed point adjacent the inner side of said jamb and pivotally connectedto the bed controlling the path of swinging of the bed.

NEIL SINCLAIR.

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